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Posted 2012-May-04, 08:45
Here's a hand I played last night. See if you can do better than me:
The opening lead is the ♠.
Plan the play.
The opening lead is the ♠.
Plan the play.
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Posted 2012-May-04, 09:11
I'd win in dummy and lead a diamond to the king. If both follow I am home. If RHO shows out then I'll play for 10xx of clubs with LHO. It's conceivable that people would double with Kxxx AKxxx - 10xxx, but queen-fourth of clubs must be more likely.
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Posted 2012-May-04, 09:14
I take it it's a small spade led, not the ♠K 
My first thought is: take ♠A to avoid any ruff shenanigans, then cash the ♦AK, then the ♣AK throwing a heart. If the diamonds split, the defence can cash their ♠K and a heart, but that's it.
So the problem must come in the form of a 3-0 diamond break... which means you need to get rid of the 2nd heart loser fast. Win the ♠A, play to ♦K, cash ♣A and ruff one, cross to DA, cash CK and pray looks about the only shot due to lack of entries.
Must still be missing something? Taking the ♠ finesse on the first trick is asking for disaster.
Edit: I see the cross-post. Seems there are different ways one could guess clubs and playing for 10xx in west isn't a bad idea by any means.
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My first thought is: take ♠A to avoid any ruff shenanigans, then cash the ♦AK, then the ♣AK throwing a heart. If the diamonds split, the defence can cash their ♠K and a heart, but that's it.
So the problem must come in the form of a 3-0 diamond break... which means you need to get rid of the 2nd heart loser fast. Win the ♠A, play to ♦K, cash ♣A and ruff one, cross to DA, cash CK and pray looks about the only shot due to lack of entries.
Must still be missing something? Taking the ♠ finesse on the first trick is asking for disaster.
Edit: I see the cross-post. Seems there are different ways one could guess clubs and playing for 10xx in west isn't a bad idea by any means.
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Posted 2012-May-04, 11:37
han, on 2012-May-04, 09:11, said:
I'd win in dummy and lead a diamond to the king. If both follow I am home. If RHO shows out then I'll play for 10xx of clubs with LHO. It's conceivable that people would double with Kxxx AKxxx - 10xxx, but queen-fourth of clubs must be more likely.
Right! When RHO shows out on the diamond (not unlikely as there's about 12 non-diamond points out there), his shape is very likely 5404 or 4504.
At the table I confess I played ♣A, ♣ too quickly and I could not recover.
The lead to the K first works as a nice discovery play. It creates the urgency of setting up clubs and also points to the neccessity of Txx on your left.
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Posted 2012-May-04, 14:23
Good hand. I always get these right...... the next day 
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Posted 2012-May-05, 19:27
Win with ♠A, take 2 rounds of trumps finishing in hand. If trumps are 2-1 it is easy. If not, we can now try the ♣ finesse.
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Posted 2012-May-07, 06:10
Statto, on 2012-May-05, 19:27, said:
Win with ♠A, take 2 rounds of trumps finishing in hand. If trumps are 2-1 it is easy. If not, we can now try the ♣ finesse.
The club finesse into the doubler seems like a much lower % than the smother play through them.
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